Philipp Scharrenberg - "Wahr, aber falsch"

Language can create misunderstandings, incite people, turn feelings into facts - or bring out the best in itself. That's what Philipp Scharrenberg does.

He's the rogue of cabaret, the M.C. Escher of the spoken word, the Daniel Düsentrieb of comedy - a bit whack, a bit weird, and a few other things starting with W. Someone who stacks rhymes like Lego bricks, who whirls across the stage in a verbal dance of expression, without pretending to be cool. He prefers small art to big talk.

In his programme "Wahr, aber falsch", he reckons with everything. With self-irony and subtle humour, Scharrenberg asks whether a world that no longer even pretends to make sense can still be saved - and whether we even want to save it. When real satire overtakes cabaret and the level of laughter drops to the basement, we need sharp minds who know what is true but false. In Veritas on level.